Optical Drive

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Date Published

Date Built

CPU Clock Rate

CPU Temperature While Idle

31.0° C

CPU Temperature Under Load

56.0° C

GPU Core Clock Rate

1.321 GHz

GPU Effective Memory Clock Rate

6.808 GHz

GPU Temperature While Idle

31.0° C

GPU Temperature Under Load

60.0° C

Description

Seriously.... I caught the building bug once I got on this site. This was my first build here: http://pcpartpicker.com/b/PCQV3C
I've been wanting to jump up to DDR4 for awhile but it wasn't possible under my budget to go with any i7 on the 2011-v3. Once skylake came out along with the z170 m7 motherboard, my fate was decided. I believe that this is the first overclocked i5-6600k on this site so I'll be glad to help out with any questions. My motherboard has a very easy OC tuner that made the process go very fast. I've also overclocked both of my 760's to 1321MHz (Core) and 3404MHz (Memory) and it has boosted my frames by 10 On the Heaven benchmark, my results are as follows Average 56.5 Score 1424 Minimum 26 Maximum 132 And on Shadows of Mordor it goes: Average 102 Minimum 52.6 Maximum 237 I am VERY satisfied with this build and I don't believe I'll have to touch it for a long time :)
The only variable that stopped my overclock was the high voltages. The CPU would just not stay stable when I went to 4.7GHz so I stuck with 4.6. I was amazed at how the temps stayed SO LOW. Well, I guess not super low, but considering I increased the speed by ~30% and it stayed at 56*C was crazy. I guess it does help that I've got the Noctua cooler on it.

Great build, i would like to know, i am new to overclocking ( i cant overclock right now) but i know i will be overclocking around new years when i get the money for a new pc, i know you have to have a aftermarket cpu cooler and i would be using the Corsair H100i GTX but how do you know when the cpu is unstable and what would be the highest temp before it would be to hot for the cpu? as i dont know much about overclocking i could use all the help i can get :) thank you

Great choice in water cooling by the way!
1: To know that you're cpu is unstable you first need to install various softwares to look at your cpu. I download speccy (to see temperatures), cpu-z (to see my clock speed and voltage) and prime95 (to run my cpu at 100% usage). If you run the torture test and your cpu fails it within a couple hours (prime95 will tell you) you need to lower your overclock.
2: My safe zone temperatures is nothing above 75° C. I know that technically you can run it much hotter with no problems but it's not worth it to me and I'd rather keep it cool. You can see that my high overclock only hits 56° maximum.

I had read that article before I had bought the ssd so I knew what I was getting into. What convinced me to buy it was that it was on sale for $60 so it was worth it for me. I'll definitely not buy another kingston ssd after what they did.

How are you liking the i5-6600k? And how well does it go with that board? I'm ordering hardware and these 2 guys are on my list, all tho I'm not sure if going Gaming 7 or just go with the Gaming 5, This will pair up with 4x4GB 3000MHz and 1 GTX 980ti.

(I will sure be asking about the overclocking guide once it is ready to go!)

Been looking at memory choices for DDR4, making a totally new building with the upcoming 6700K. How do you feel about your memory? CAS 16 seemed a little high to me, but I have very little experience in this area! Newegg has the same memory in red for cheaper currently, and I was thinking of jumping on that.

Also, how's the motherboard treating you? I was leaning towards a cheaper MSI Gaming M5 or equivalent ASUS mobo. Your M7 looks impressive. I'm not sure how much overclocking I will do since this is my very first build.

I feel that my memory is well up to par. I would say that the high speed makes up for the latency if CAS 16, but how the heck and am I going to know lol.
The red was out of stock when I ordered and I would prefer the red for sure.
This motherboard works like a dream. I love that it have m.2 slots for when they inevitably get cheaper and I love the overclocking ease. My board opinion is to get the m7 for that feature alone.

Excellent build man. Glad you like that MSI Z170 Gaming M7. I'm buying it for my next build. Probably just going to pull the trigger on the i5 6600K. Can't find any i7 6700K anywhere. And the i5 6600K kicks *** man.

sounds cool man, what im trying to get is i7-4770, MSI GeForce GTX 770, any decent motherboard not that great as yours but still should work, kingston ssd, 8GB RAM, 1tb HDD, some cool power supply, didnt search the web for case and cpu fans yet but will probably get your stuff. Sounds like a plan?

Something that I believe is worth some research would be getting an ITX case. They're much smaller and portable. Just look for an ITX motherboard with the 1150 socket for that 4770. That does sound good though!

Coming from the fx-6300, this was a serious upgrade for me. The skylake keeps really cool while dishing out performance and there's nothing more I could ask for. The motherboard is even better. There's a knob on the board that overclocks at 100MHz increments and automatically does the voltage upscale.
Yes I have read the article and since I am only using it as a boot drive it didn't bother me much.